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From: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
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* George:

> In verbal and written communication Ada's heritage from military and DoD 
> is emphasized. A lot of programmers reject everything related to defense 
> and war and would therefore never look at Ada.

In this age, even writing PHP code does not prevent the military from
using it in security-sensitive contexts.  There is a multi-level
extension for Mediawiki which aims at EAL6 certification.